The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.

I'm the most translated writer in the world, behind Lenin, Tolstoy, Gorki and Jules Verne. And they're all dead.

The first page sells this book. The last page sells your next book.

Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics.

I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics.

I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger.

Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo.